SCHMIDT, Johannes Friedrich Heinrich. Prenzlau, Brandenburg 29.7.1843 — Berlin 4.7.1901. German IE Scholar. Professor in Berlin. Orphaned (mother died 1844, father 1852) he grew up at his uncle, Gymnasium Professor K. E. A. Schmidt in Stettin, matriculated there in 1860. In 1860-62 studies of classical philology (Ritschl) at Bonn, then…
SCHMIDT, Gernot Gustav. Hamburg 29.7.1931 — 4.7.1991. German IE Scholar. Professor in Bonn. Son of Gustav Schmidt and Elisabeth Weiher. Ph.D. 1962 F.U.Berlin (under Kienle). PD 1974 Bonn. From 1980 Professor of IE Linguistics at Bonn. Married 1966 Elise Steinwender, three children. Publications: Diss. Studien zum germanischen Adverb. 393 p. B.…
SCHMIDT, Erich Friedrich. Baden-Baden 13.9.1897 — Santa Barbara Calif. 3.10.1964. German Archaeologist in the U.S.A., U.S. citizen 1938. Son of Erhard Friedrich Schmidt (d. c. 1907), clergyman and professor, and Frida Loeffler (d. before 1920). Lost early his father, had military education and served in WW I. Wounded in Galicia…
SCHLEICHER, August. Meiningen, Thüringen 1821 — Jena 6.12.1868. German Indologist and IE Scholar. Professor in Prague and Jena. Son of Johann Gottlieb Schleicher (1793–1864), a physician with liberal ideas, and Henriette Heym (d. c. 1835). Grew up in Sonneberg near Meiningen. After gymnasium in Coburg and Hildeburghausen studied 1840-41 theology…
SCHINDLER, Jochem. Amstetten, Niederösterreich 8.11.1944 — Prague 24.12.1994. Austrian IE Linguist. Educated in Linz. Studies of IE and Romance Linguistics at Vienna and Würzburg (Kronasser). Ph.D. 1972 Würzburg. In 1972-74 Assistant at Vienna. In 1974-76 Assistant Professor, 1976-78 Associate Professor and from 1978 Professor at Harvard, but in 1987 returned…
SCHELLER, Meinrad. Zürich 17.5.1921 — 24.4.1991. Swiss Sanskrit and IE Scholar. Professor in Zürich. Grew up in Zürich. Studies from 1940 at Zürich under M. Leumann, Pokorny and Risch, also in Paris. Ph.D. 1948 (under Leumann). Further studies 1949-51 in Paris, some time also at Prague. In 1951-54 worked for…
SCHÄFFER, Philipp Nikolai Woldemar. Königsberg 16.11.1894 — Berlin-Plötzensee 16.5.1943. German Student of Indology, then Sinologist, Communist and Activist against Nazism. Son of an officer, grew up in St.Petersburg. Began studies there 1913 (Sanskrit), but 1914 the family was banished, as enemies, to Archangelsk. In 1918 they returned to St.Petersburg, but…
SCALIGERO, Massimo (nom-de-plume of Antonio Massimo Sgabelloni). Veroli, Lazio 17.9.1906 — Rome 26.1.1980. Italian Esoterist (Follower of Evola) and Steinerian Anthroposophist, also an Antisemitist. Lost early his mother and was raised by his uncle, journalist Pietro Scabelloni. Pupil of Evola when 20, soon also of Steiner. From 1932 worked as…
SCALABRINO BORSANI, Giuseppina (or G. Borsani Scalabrino). Milano 9.5.1910 — 22.2.1991. Italian Indologist. Professor in Milano. Studied Sanskrit at Catholic University of Milano under A. Ballini, graduated in 1933. Soon Assistant, then Docent, and from 1954 the first woman in Italy with a Sanskrit chair, at Catholic University of Milano,…
SAVIDGE, Frederick William (“Sap Upa”). Stretham near Ely, Cambridgeshire 3.5.1862 — London 26/28.9.1936. Rev. British Baptist Missionary in North-East India. Son of Briggs Savidge (1835–1921), a Baptist grocer and draper, and Sarah Clarke. B.A., Ph.D. Worked as schoolteacher in London. Arrived in India in 1891. Together with his friend —>…